Clinical Efficacy of Topical Terbinafine Versus Topical Luliconazole in Treatment of Tinea Corporis/Tinea Cruris Patients

Treatment, prevention and public health management of impetigo, scabies, crusted scabies and fungal skin infections in endemic populations: a systematic review

“…Similarly, very low-quality pilot RCT evidence from India found superiority of topical sertaconazole over topical terbinafine or topical luliconazole for clinical cure and symptom relief [80]. Very low-quality RCT evidence also found no difference between topical sertaconazole and topical terbinafine [81] and that topical terbinafine and topical luliconazole could not be differentiated [82]. Similarly, low-quality RCT evidence from India found that daily oral terbinafine or weekly fluconazole achieved similar clinical cures [78] and topical butenafine was no better than weekly fluconazole combined with topical Whitfield's ointment (3% salicylic acid and 6% benzoic acid) at 4 weeks [83].…”